On 2011's haunting The Magic Place album, Julianna Barwick mainly constructed the songs around layers and layers of her vocals, creating textured, modern-day hymns that were occasionally a whisker away from Enya territory. For her forthcoming third album, Nepenthe – named after an ancient drug which supposedly erases sorrow, and inspired by a recent loss – Barwick has expanded her sound to include a string ensemble (courtesy of Iceland's Amiina), soft guitar and a choir of teenage girls. Perhaps most outlandishly, however, current single One Half is her first ever composition to include fully-formed lyrics. That's not to say that she's gone full-on Bob Dylan, spewing poetic couplets about love and such like, more that she's now interested in looping and layering whole sentences rather than just wordless coos. Opening with a ghostly mesh of vocals that sort of just hang there suspended, One Half soon slides into a more coherent song structure, Barwick gently sighing "I guess I was asleep that night, was waiting for...", as other lyrics slowly tumble forth and get lost in the beautiful swell of the song's second half. These two halves are represented in the video – directed by Zia Anger and premiered here – which juxtaposes the grey, concrete sprawl of the opening section with the nature-obsessed colour of the latter half, the two meeting by the song's end.